A parking garage is going up on the site of the former Scheels building at SouthPointe Pavilions. Portions of it will be available for parking in November, but weather has delayed construction.
EMILY HANEY, Journal Star
A parking garage is going up at the end of September on the site of the former Scheels building at SouthPointe Pavilions.Â
Has there been an update on the SouthPointe parking garage? The media reports I can find all say "fall 2019," as does Sampson Construction's website, but it's nowhere near finished.
There was some speculation on Twitter recently as to whether the parking garage being built at SouthPointe Pavilions is going to open in time for holiday shopping, as had been the plan when construction started in January.
The answer: sort of.
"Portions of the garage will be completed by the holiday season in November of this year," Julie Lattimer, SouthPointe's marketing director, said in an email.
She did not specify what portions of the garage will be ready for parking in November.
Lattimer said "extraordinary weather delays" in winter and early spring had set the construction schedule back.
Lincoln saw its second-snowiest winter on record with 55.5 inches, including one of the coldest and snowiest Februaries on record. Lincoln also got 3 inches more rain than normal in May.
The entire garage is on track to open sometime in the first quarter of next year, Lattimer said.
The $19 million parking garage is part of a $103 million expansion of the outdoor mall at 27th Street and Pine Lake Road.
Scheels opened a new 220,000-square-foot store in September 2018, and the parking garage is being built on the site where the old Scheels store was torn down.
The garage will have more than 1,000 stalls on three levels, as well as about 20,000 square feet of retail space on the south end.
Shoppers at the mall started paying a 1% occupation tax in January 2018 to pay for construction of the garage.
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The company that owns the mall said about 380 stalls on the east side of the $19 million garage opened. The west side of the garage is not yet open.
A parking garage is going up on the site of the former Scheels building at SouthPointe Pavilions. Portions of it will be available for parking in November, but weather has delayed construction.